Talk About Poetry

Talk About Poetry

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Talk About Poetry, where several working poets get together to talk about poems they like, are interested in, engaged by, or are annoyed by. Totally unscripted so anything can be said -- and frequently is!

A terrific reading by six poets from the le Moyne creative Writing program, plus the director, David Lloyd. Also reading were Nine Mile co-editor Steve Kuusisto and Diane Wiener, whose books The Golem Verses is out from Nine Mile books. The reading...Show More

Discussion of the work of the brilliant late poet James Tate, focusing on two of his poems, "The Lost Pilot" and "The Wheelchair Butterfly." The discussion is led by four working poets, Stephen Kuusisto, Bob Herz, Paul Memmer, and Georgia Popoff.

An interview with Andrea Scarpino on her work, focusing especially on her brilliant book, What The Willow Said As It Fell. Interviewers were Bob Herz and Stephen Kuusisto, editors of Nine Mile Magazine. The quality and volume are a little irregular...Show More

A reading by Emma Vallelunga and Christopher Costello, two of the young authors at the Syracuse YMCA Downtown Writers Center Young Authors Academy. The picture is of the several young authors at our session.

Reading by Christopher Citro at the Greater Syracuse YMCA's Downtown Writers Center in October 2015. Mr. Citro's first book of poetry was published by Steel Toe Books in March , 2015. He won the 2015 Poetry Writing Competition at Columbia: A Journa...Show More

Sam Pereira reading poems, including several from his new book, Bad Angels, published by Nine Mile Press, which is also the sponsor of these podcasts. Several of the poems have as a site places in and around Iowa City, a remembrance of the time when...Show More

Ken Weisner is a poet, teacher, and editor living in Santa Cruz, California. He read at the Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse in March 2015.
Weiner has published widely in national journals including The Antioch Review, Seneca Review, The Brookl...Show More

Poetry reading by Andrea Scarpino at the Downtown Writers center at the YMCA of Greater Syracuse in Syracuse, NY. Ms. Scarpino is author of Once, Then, from Red Hen Press. This reading is underwritten by the Downtown Writers Center at the YMCA of G...Show More